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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
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Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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There are worse prisons than words.
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You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
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The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.
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Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
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I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
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He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.
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The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
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People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.
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